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WPT GTO Trainer Hands of the Week: Playing with an Expert to Your Left

This week you’re playing a common spot in a cash game where you raise in the Cutoff seat and an expert player flat calls you on the Button. These spots are difficult, since a very tough player has position on you on every street.

Since we have a fairly wide opening range in the Cutoff and the Button has a calling range that is narrower than this, you often have a range disadvantage on the flop. This is unusual for the preflop aggressor and in some ways this spot plays similarly to when you call from the Big Blind.